Hello and Oscar goes to. And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. You like me.

Right now. You like me.

I'm the King of the World.

There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. I'm Katie Rich the deputy editor of Vanity Fair.com and I'm here with our

digital director Mike Hogan. Hey Katie. Our chief critic Richard Lawson.

Hello.

And our senior writer, Joanna Robinson.

Hi Katie.

It's so good to all be here together.

We all had really busy weekends.

And it's a really busy time in the Oscar race so there's a ton to talk

about. Richard, Joanna, and I were all at phone festivals over the weekend in

completely different parts of the country which is you know kind of funny to all check back in so we're going to start by kind of just like going through all of that

Talk about parasite talk about bombshell and then as two animals we have an interview with Laura Dern in the back half of this episode.

Anyway, Richard, let's start with you,

furthest east in the country.

You were at the Hamptons Film Festival this weekend,

and it was your first time, right?

Yes, I'd never been to the festival, though I'd heard good things.

They have a long working relationship with the New York

Film Critics Circle so they try to bring a couple people from that group every

Columbus Day weekend to do various things I was brought out ostensibly to do an hour-long kind of

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